CADmonkey

So, just to be clear, you're OK with someone telling you to get on the bus? A bus headed to a location they aren't telling you about?

What if they took you to the train station and loaded you on a box car with a bunch of other people, is that OK?

I once bought a more or less running car for $50.

Wet rental?

I have a cousin who is 100% convinced that the US government or someone is hiding anti-gravity from everyone. Something about wheel manufacturers having a chokehold on the world.

And Tom Morello saying he wasn't aware they had any non-political songs and would remove any he found.

"So tell me about yourself"

"It's all on the resume"

I thought that was called sealioning?

I'm afraid I don't have a wall of links to support my argument.

The thing I keep thinking about, and I feel like I've never been able to properly communicate, is that the machines our society runs on are built to run in a certain temperature range.

The 2021 texas winter fiasco was a perfect demonstration of what happens when we try to run a society's machinery outside of it's expected temperature range. Yes, the ERCOT goofballs were trying to save money by narrowing that expected operating range because "It never gets that cold" and "It never gets that hot", but my badly articulated point still stands - a system was made to operate in a temperature range outside of it's capability, and it started to fail. They were minutes away from losing very expensive and hard to replace equipment. What we don't want is for one of the more competently-run power grids in the world to start to buckle due to temperatures, because the same thing that happened in texas could happen on a larger scale.

And that's just talking about the power grid. Anything with a heat exchanger in it, including your car and air conditioner and all the refrigeration that is needed to keep everyone fed, is designed to run in a certain temperature range, and will stop working if you run it outside of that range for too long.

But wait, we can just design stuff to run in a wider temperature range! We certainly can. But we would have to redesign everything that moves heat around.

The titty of the polar vortex sags ever southward.

Those are fine. The fucking cars are ok too, I'm just tired.

See? You are doing it. Be sure to dismiss this response as something coming from an incel, my other half thinks it's funny.

Like drop the macho act and ask for help, buddy. It's ok.

And watch the people who said they cared suddenly get real scarce.

I wish it wasn't that way, and I'm happy it's no longer that way for me. But there are people around you right now who know of they speak up, loved ones and friends will tell them "it's no big deal" or "It's all in your head" or my favorite, "man up".